This post was titled Chris Paul and the Knicks about a week ago, and it’s been through several versions in the time since.

Every day has brought someone new [...]]]> (If you’re not aware, I used to LOVE the NBA, which is no longer true, and the reason the following exists.)

This post was titled Chris Paul and the Knicks about a week ago, and it’s been through several versions in the time since.

Every day has brought someone new to be angry at, aghast by, or embarrassed for.

In the end, I realized there wasn’t all that much to say about the NBA in 2011-12. It’s not that complicated.

My fandom requirements are much the same as they were up until 2007, which is when the league started going bad for me. Keep in mind I’m not against player movement, free agency, or making money.

Here it is:

1) Be a true competitor.
2) Don’t be a jerk to fans.

It’s not that black/white in every case, but more and more of the stars – the reason I’ve loved pro basketball since I was a kid – can’t pass those tests. AAU culture, business over sport, lap dances, who knows why.

Kobe has it on both counts; LeBron fails on both. (“Wanting to be on the winning team” isn’t the same “wanting to win”. James is the former – I won’t argue it.)

I could blow this up to 2000 words, but that pretty much sums up what’s missing for me in the modern NBA.

That said, I’m giving it an honest try since the Cavs have a fresh start of sorts, and I’ll make an effort to watch for reasons beyond rooting against the Heat.

(I don’t have parameters for owners and commissioners, but I’ll note that if they wanted a virtual franchise tag, they should’ve held out for it. I wish they had, but they made their beds, and don’t be babies, and etc.)

Captain Stern just needs to threaten to bring back the Orange Roundie, and even Etan Thomas will be like, “Whoa, whoa, wait – I guess [...]]]> The answer to the title of this post is right there in this nice picture I took, and it’s orange, and round, and slippery to Steve Nash’s touch.

Captain Stern just needs to threaten to bring back the Orange Roundie, and even Etan Thomas will be like, “Whoa, whoa, wait – I guess my $55M contract was fine.”

Now that I settled that problem, here comes a nice email, and it’s from a boy, and etc.

Hi Brian- Checking in to say your blog is a trip. It’s funny & imaginative, but hockey seems mighty under-represented compared to the *other* winter sport. And that…well…that just ain’t right.

Matt in Massachusetts

I wish he was saying that my blog was like going on a funny and imaginative trip, but that’s not what he’s saying at all.

Maybe I can just rewrite his excitement email.

Hey Brian – Reading your blog is like going on a funny, imaginative trip. A winter sport cavalcade, filled with hockey bucks and crukus balls the likes of which the world has never seen!

That it comes but on an irregular occasion…must it be so, mate!

Your friend and purchaser of all of your reasonably priced $2.99 books,

Matt in England

Does anyone know where I can check out diving contests on TV or the online internet so that Matt can see me write about other winter sports so much.

Dwyane Wade wasn’t certain what would come of his attendance of the 2011 NBA Players Union Meeting With David Stern, but he felt a raw, savage need to be there.

After all, he was one of the league’s most high-profile celebrity athletes, he was otherwise unoccupied, and he had been looking for [...]]]> CHAPTER ONE

Dwyane Wade wasn’t certain what would come of his attendance of the 2011 NBA Players Union Meeting With David Stern, but he felt a raw, savage need to be there.

After all, he was one of the league’s most high-profile celebrity athletes, he was otherwise unoccupied, and he had been looking for a chance to show off his new puppy to LeBron James, his friend and teammate.

Teammate.

The word had such a complex dual meaning, and the was weighing on Dwyane’s sweating, muscular shoulders as he did his deluxe shoulder presses in his workout cottage, outside the pool house of his Miami mansion.

LeBron was his teammate in technical terms – they were on the same team, shared a uniform and a locker room, and – at least if what LeBron said was true – both wanted to win an NBA championship.

Was he a teammate in the labor dispute, though? Did LeBron really care if they didn’t play this season, or would it be a relief of sorts? Did Dwyane care? Did he really care? If he did, wouldn’t he be in New York, massaging the rock-hard shoulders of Union President Derek Fisher?

What kind of teammate was he to be attending to his own shoulders, and not Derek’s?

And what about David Stern’s shoulders? Weren’t he and Mr. Stern teammates too, albeit of a different sort?

Wasn’t the rhetoric since he’d come into the league as a fresh-faced rookie in 2003 that they were all in this together – players and owners? The good of the league and the brand above all else? Wasn’t his on-stage handshake with Mr. Stern a metaphor for same?

A text from LeBron – it showed up on his television, which was tethered to his iPhone – brought some form of an answer:

got milk? lol

As Dwyane pumped out a last repetition and felt the various lactic acids releasing from his deltoids, he wondered why he had so many questions.

And so and thusly in swift fashion, Dwyane Wade booked the soonest airplane ride to New York he could get, determined to get answers.

No matter what.

That opener was really just my transition into explaining the random LeBron dream I had the other night.

Myself, LeBron, and ESPN’s Bill Simmons were [...]]]> Occasionally I still pretend to be an @OrangeRoundie on Twitter and spout off about how I feel about Kobe (pictured) vs how I feel about LeBron.

That opener was really just my transition into explaining the random LeBron dream I had the other night.

Myself, LeBron, and ESPN’s Bill Simmons were seated Oprah-style in front of a live studio audience.

Not sure who was the host or whose show it was supposed to be, and it wasn’t an interview situation. It seemed to be a private conversation that was taking place in public.

LeBron was trying to explain something, and having a lot of trouble putting the words together. Bill cut him off to ask about some statistical thing – I don’t remember what.

This made LeBron more flustered, so I put one hand on Bill’s shoulder and gave him a look like, “this isn’t the time for that.”

Then I took my other hand and put it on LeBron’s knee, and was like, “go ahead.”

LeBron stood up and started reading hateful Tweets from Northeast Ohio people, and after four or five he started bawling and sobbing at the same time.

As the crowd started cheering, we had a Good Will Hunting moment. I started giving him a comfort hug, except instead of hugging him I turned into the Hulk, and that’s when I woke up.

The weirdest thing about the dream is that I was wearing a super tight Bank of America t-shirt through the whole thing, and when I turned into the Hulk, it didn’t tear at all – it just got bigger with me.

What do you think this dream means. Should I switch banks.

I’ll be going to the game tonight with Pete from Cleveland Frowns – I wrote like three different posts for his site about LeBron Returns, but none of them were focused enough to merit taking up [...]]]> I can’t actually tell you the three rules I have for LeBron, because they’re my secret life rules.

I’ll be going to the game tonight with Pete from Cleveland Frowns – I wrote like three different posts for his site about LeBron Returns, but none of them were focused enough to merit taking up internet space.

Anyway, last time I was in town, we also went to a game, and the ever-great @MayKat33 made us this:

This game should be fun, which something none of the holier-than-though columnists of America have bothered to touch on.

Hopefully there are more artistic representations of me attending games, and cool hats, and yelling, and etc.

I’ll be on Twitter for when the game is being a game and then probably when it’s done being a game. Also beforehand, while I’m driving.

I broke my social embargo last week by returning to Twitter and Facebook, where I went ahead and did what I’d spent the first ten days of my break planning and strategizing.

It was all about perfecting this Facebook post:

It’s [...]]]> Well, I’m back from not being here on my website blog.

I broke my social embargo last week by returning to Twitter and Facebook, where I went ahead and did what I’d spent the first ten days of my break planning and strategizing.

It was all about perfecting this Facebook post:

It’s right in the link if you want to see and interact with it live.

Other things I did: wrote another (short) book – it’ll be out later this month, and only on the Kindle platform. (Which you don’t need a Kindle for – see the upper left sidebar.)

I also went to Cleveland, came back, and am back in Cleveland again. (No, not for LeBron’s return – it’s a happy coincidence. And yes, I’ll be writing up my thoughts on the Heat later this week…!)

Coming back to a blog lifestyle is hard, but I’ll be fine by Wednesday because of how special I can be sometimes.

After all this, I get it.

And yes, I watched last night. (I happen to be back in Cleveland for a few days, as well.)

From my Twitter:

Just spontaneously applauded a Boston [...]]]> I know there are people dying to know – still – what I think about the NBA.

After all this, I get it.

And yes, I watched last night. (I happen to be back in Cleveland for a few days, as well.)

From my Twitter:

Just spontaneously applauded a Boston team. What planet am I on.
via Twitter for Android

From my Facebook:

Cavs win over Celtics tonight is verified proof of the basketball gods.
via Facebook for Android

Look how cool that is with my Android apps.

Well, @needsrebooting yelled at me for making her think about the wrong KB.

@brianspaeth Your good chat with KB title had me all hyped you talked to Kobe. :-/
12 hours ago via web

I felt really bad about that, so [...]]]> Remember my post from last week about talking to KB?

Well, @needsrebooting yelled at me for making her think about the wrong KB.

@brianspaeth Your good chat with KB title had me all hyped you talked to Kobe. :-/
12 hours ago via web

I felt really bad about that, so here is what the chat I had with Kobe that same day was like.

KB: Hey do you like apples. lol

me: Not as much as I used to. What’s up. How is basketball going.

KB: Just say you like apples lol

me: I did say that more or less – it’s just I used to like them more.
me: Does your finger still hurt lol

KB: Okay, I’m going to ask you if you like apples, and then you say yes.
KB: Just type “yes”.
KB: lol

me: brb phone
me: sry

KB: wtf

me: k back
me: i bet you have pajamas of yourself
me: that’s what my phone call was about lol

KB: Do you like apples lol

me: lolol did you see the new vid with the silly cat
me: what is your email again i will spend it lol
me: *send it

KB: dude do you like apples or not lol

me: Yes
me: wtf

KB: How much do you like them lol
KB: wait
KB: crap start over

me: give me your email you have to see what this cat does lolol
me: or just google “silly cat on the roof 2010″

KB: k hang on one sec
KB: LOL!
KB: That’s crazy

me: spaghetti lol

KB: I know lolol

That was all, although there are new posts a couple times a week at the site for The Christmas Bridge. Today shows you a clue about what happens to Cleveland in the future.

In the meantime, @bohnlein said the nicest thing he’s ever said about me on Twitter.

@brianspaeth you’re so intelligent when not being a silly goose
1 minute ago via Twitter for iPhone

I’ve been meaning to try this for awhile but only now got around to it.

That last sentence seemed awkward.

So did that one.

It’s kinda hard to write like this [...]]]> Okay, so this is my first post from the WordPress app on the Google Nexus One Excitement Phone, so bear with me.

I’ve been meaning to try this for awhile but only now got around to it.

That last sentence seemed awkward.

So did that one.

It’s kinda hard to write like this – everything feels like it should be Tweet-length from the phone, plus my hands hurt from playing Home Run Battle 3-D all night on this.

Cavs in 5 – that pic is a tease at the shoulder tattoo fix.

To make it relatable to all, I’d have to do a lot of explaining.)

I’ve been reading a lot about how offended everyone is about Cleveland being allowed to re-sign Z in what was clearly an unspoken understanding [...]]]> (If you don’t follow the NBA pretty closely, you probably need not bother with this post.

To make it relatable to all, I’d have to do a lot of explaining.)

I’ve been reading a lot about how offended everyone is about Cleveland being allowed to re-sign Z in what was clearly an unspoken understanding about the Jamison trade.

“Look, we have a chance to pick up Jamison for nothing if we pretend we don’t want you anymore and you take a 30-day vacation. Good? Good.”

It was likely never said outside the Danny Ferry Excitement Bunker, but everyone “got it”.

The great lengths the team has gone to removing Z’s image from the arena, and how Z’s agent is pretending to romance other teams – it’s all funny, at least to a Cleveland fan like myself.

What’s odd is how aghast people are about this now, when it’s been going on for years.

Now, we all know what the aghastedness is about: anything that helps Cleveland win the title brings LeBron one step closer to staying, which means the national media won’t have anything to write about.

Even my unbiased side doesn’t think he’s leaving anyway, and certainly not for the Knicks – historically, how many league MVPs have left one of the best teams in the NBA for one of the worst, and taken less money to do so?

If people would stop hoping for the sensational story and start looking at the facts, it might help. Don’t forget, he could’ve left three years ago if he’d wanted to.

In any case, the point of this post is that nobody is talking about this: what Cleveland is doing is an amazingly great example of something.

Here you’ve got a small-market team, in a city that’s shrinking and losing jobs, in a lousy economy…gaming the system.

Isn’t that what everyone complains that the Red Sox and Yankees and Knicks do? Just spend money rampantly and buy a winner? (Well, the Knicks don’t actually accomplish that, but you get the point.)

Yes, having LeBron is a variable that won’t fit in anyone else’s potential template, but the little team from Cleveland becoming the economic bully of the NBA is point that should be celebrated in some fashion, not criticized.

Talk all you want about the system being broken – I’d say the people running the teams (GMs/Owners) are simply bad at their jobs in many cases.

This is about more than just a few robbery trades – Gilbert has built a first class organization, and Danny Ferry has done a fantastic job.

Remember when he played hardball with Varajao, refusing to overpay for him? How many other GMs would’ve just ponied up $10M/year for six years without thinking about it?

Call it hometown pride, but that’s the good story nobody’s taking from this. Smart owner willing to spend, smart GM willing to make tough/smart deals, build yourself a winner.

Even outside THE NEW YORK CITY.

OMG ALICIA KEYS SING YOUR FAUX-FANCY SONG.

1) They don’t care much about the NBA.

2) If you’d asked me before looking at this where Wyoming was, I don’t think I could’ve pointed it out without using process of elimination.

3) I can’t name one city in Wyoming.

4) I’ve [...]]]> Some Wyoming trivia/realizations based on this screengrab from an ESPN.com poll:

1) They don’t care much about the NBA.

2) If you’d asked me before looking at this where Wyoming was, I don’t think I could’ve pointed it out without using process of elimination.

3) I can’t name one city in Wyoming.

4) I’ve not known anyone who has lived in, visited, driven through, knew about, or thought about Wyoming.

5) Looking at this map – and I don’t know if I’m just outside my own head right now or what – it just doesn’t feel like Wyoming is a real state.

This isn’t meant as an assault on this fictional place or the two people who pretend to live there – these are real thoughts I had while waiting for this Stoudemire-to-Cavs trade to happen.

I know it’s like the “blog thing to do” to bash ESPN’s Bill Simmons, and I don’t come here to do that today expressly.

Say what you will about him, but I’ve come to quite like his podcast – he has interesting [...]]]> (I blatantly re-purposed this Photoshop job from my old website, sorry.)

I know it’s like the “blog thing to do” to bash ESPN’s Bill Simmons, and I don’t come here to do that today expressly.

Say what you will about him, but I’ve come to quite like his podcast – he has interesting guests and there’s an enthusiasm and casualness to it I like.

He’s also fairly aware he maybe needs to step back from the NBA trade machine a bit – he freely admits his craziest trade suggestions are indeed crazy at times.

However, on his show with JA Adande the other day, he was totally serious (it seemed) in his opinion that the best basketball situations for LeBron to go to are Chicago and the LA Clippers.

Not only that, but he completely discounted the Cavs as anything more than a remote possibility.

Now, while I’m a Cleveland fan to the end, I’m freely willing to admit LeBron may leave, and that he’ll certainly visit every single team in the NBA on his free agent tour this summer.

Looking purely at it from a basketball standpoint though…let’s look at the Cavs.

- Best record in the NBA
- Built-in chemistry/continuity
- Defensive-minded coach
- Brand-new practice facility
- Big expiring contracts
- One of the few teams that are profitable
- Owner willing to spend whatever it takes

You could go down the list with both Chicago and LAC, and they’re the opposite of what the Cavs have in many cases.

LeBron’s gonna go play for Mike Dunleavey on the most cursed, cheap, and poorly run organization in sports? I can’t even see how that’s a rational argument at all, basing it purely on basketball.

And Chicago? Does LeBron really want his legacy to be having every single thing ever written about him forever be even more of a comparison to Michael Jordan?

Even adding in marketing, he’s fine in Cleveland.

With the new McDonald’s deal, he’s got all the big sponsor segments except a car company.

He’s got a TV show in development. He’s had a feature documentary out. He has a deal to star in LeBron’s Fantasy Basketball Camp Begins.

Look, he’s conquered America, and this doesn’t even take into account that Cleveland is close to home, the Cavs can pay him the most money, and also have a minority owner from China, which is actually a bigger market than LA and NYC. (!!!)

In conclusion, I’m sure this has been written 50 times elsewhere already, but I didn’t even know Stephon Marbury was playing in China, so there you go.

(WSM? ends tonight – if you missed the first half of the big Sherman-Stadiums showdown…here. Aw, lookit Petey Skippen getting his chance to shine!)

Do it, then join me below.

(If you haven’t watched Chapters 1-6, you have some homework to do, friend.)

Again…spoilers [...]]]> If you haven’t yet watched Chapter 7 of Who Shot Mamba? you might want to do so – what follows will be filled with spoilers, because this segment is LOADED with revelations.

Do it, then join me below.

(If you haven’t watched Chapters 1-6, you have some homework to do, friend.)

Again…spoilers follow…

So Calvin Stadiums is the instigator of the shooting of Mamba, and continues to threaten people with guns.

If you haven’t quite put the pieces together, Calvin Stadiums is 90% based on Wizards star and gun enthusiast Gilbert Arenas…and this was written well over two years ago – long before he was suspended by the NBA for his firearm incident.

Calvin is so much a Gilbert avatar that a couple years back we were in discussions with Arenas’s people about him playing the character. We were told “yes” at one point and put the entire production on hold to wait…and wait…and wait.

Dylan Mooney came in and owned the role in a way that made for a better movie anyway, but we hold that Gil has The Curse of the Mamba hovering over him.

You laugh, but guess who was very close to playing Sherpa (from Chapter 1) and then decided against it?

Yep…Greg Oden.

In any case, while writing WSM?, just how much Gilbert was there inserted into Calvin? Here’s the breakdown of the basketball-based aspects of the character:

GILBERT ARENAS
- Obvious play on the name
- Uniform number
- Agent Zero/Henchmen Zero
- Aloof and Quirky
- Obsessed with Orange Roundie
- Unique father-son relationship
- Big Tiger as symbol of sorts
- Washington, DC
- Gunplay (unintentional)

MICHAEL JORDAN
- Greatest ever
- Gambling problem
- Competitive arrogance
- Petey Skippen sidekick

KOBE BRYANT
- the complete lack of self-awareness the younger Kobe had

The biggest Calvin-Gilbert-gun similarity of all is something I can’t talk about until the movie is over, but it was what struck me most heavily when the Arenas/gun stuff started, because it was something I had decided on years ago.

Keep watching – and there’s much more about the transition from Arenas-to-Stadiums right here.

Brad says he’s been getting all [...]]]> I was gonna make a big deal about like doing a big redesign on the site for 2010, but realized I like the thing how it is. All I did was move the links for my books up a notch and add a page about the Radby book.

Brad says he’s been getting all this email asking “wtf” about whether he’s a real person or a fake person or a cartoon person, so I felt a need to clarify things.

The big news for 2010 is that I’ve found myself kinda into the NBA again. The Cavaliers are quietly playing quite well after a bumpy start, and there just seems to be lots of interesting things going on.

I get intrigued by things like Tracy McGrady having his sadness again and Gilbert Arenas being unable to shake the Curse of the Mamba.

In any case…some IM action, in lieu of actual content.

Brian: Why are you awake
Girl: Lol…sorry.
Brian: : /
Girl: : /
Brian: Have you ever had the cereal Blue Crunchos
Girl: I have noto. Is it tasty
Brian: Yeah and even crunchier than it sounds
Girl: Oh wow
Brian: Yeah
Girl: Cool well I’m glad we talked about that brian
Brian: Me too
Girl: Bye
Brian: Can I put this on my blog it is making me laugh

Also I’ve eaten two full boxes of Cold-Eeze in the past 48 hours.

Who Shot Mamba? Chapter 6 sometime tonight – keep an eye on the FB Page.

Also, Calvin Stadiums has been blogging over at Yardbarker for a couple weeks now, and look for some Who Shot Mamba? blooper reels on the Facebook Page this week.)

Some years back my mom started [...]]]> (Yes, I’m excited about the Google Phone. Rumored January release and supported by T-Mobile for once.

Also, Calvin Stadiums has been blogging over at Yardbarker for a couple weeks now, and look for some Who Shot Mamba? blooper reels on the Facebook Page this week.)

Some years back my mom started sending those “here’s what everyone is up to” letters with her Merry Christmas cards.

I immediately insisted on control over any part of the content that referenced me, so each December I submit my own section for her to include.

(My brother does this too – perhaps he can post the 2009 edition, as his are excellent.)

Alas, this is what I sent her over the weekend.

I’m still writing and acting and producing and trying to get new projects together.

I’ve never touched a guitar before. Also, I stopped using question marks this year for awhile. Isn’t that weird.

Oops! Lost my car keys again! LOL

Do you use gmail?

Your pal,
Brian Spaeth

P.S. My sole goal in writing this was to have my mother say something like, “I am not sending this!” and I guarantee she did exactly that after I emailed it to her.

Sent via my Blackberri Tornado II From T-Marbles
Movie – www.whoshotmamba.com
Twitter – www.twitter.com/brianspaeth
Facebook – www.facebook.com/brianspaeth
Website – www.brian23.com

P.P.S. Mom, make sure to include these links, cause like that’s part of the joke for this section of the letter.

P.P.P.S Also include all of these PS’s – including this one. These are also part of the joke.

P.P.P.P.S. Sorry for not taking your Merry Christmas Letter 2010 seriously. :(

I have to admit, I can’t see a day where I ever send Christmas cards or letters of any kind myself.

Like I get them from friends of mine who are married already, and I’m always thinking, “Why did you send me this and why is it signed The Jones Family? I don’t know what one of those is – why don’t you just email or call me? Yeah, I know I don’t answer my phone ever, but why did you get married?”

Do you or your family send these type of Christmas letters? Do you send Christmas cards? Do you believe in Merry Christmas Trees and why.

Also, the Scoop Jackson case is officially (and gloriously) closed in Chapter 3.

That statement on the mag is a parody of times long past, so don’t get all ca-razee.)

Tomorrow’s Chapter 3 of Who Shot Mamba? [...]]]> (Obviously these covers were done long before the Celtics won that NBA title thingy.

That statement on the mag is a parody of times long past, so don’t get all ca-razee.)

Tomorrow’s Chapter 3 of Who Shot Mamba? sees the in-story debut of Calvin Stadiums, what one might call the film’s “unofficial adaptation of Gilbert Arenas”.

If you’ve read Prelude to a Who Shot Mamba?, you know that we actually pursued Gilbert to play Calvin, which ultimately didn’t happen.

I’ve felt this was for the better – Dylan Mooney is amazing as Calvin, and it really makes the character much more the property of the film.

Now, before settling on Calvin, some other fictionalized versions of past and present players were considered.

Mock artwork and domain names were even registered for many of the following, just in case.

Jeffery Michaels
Henry Ruffers (See his DUNK cover by clicking here.)
Kody O’Bryan
LeFrank Jones
TJ Potato
Nick Dirkowski
Lance Marker
Mason Lipp

Can you guess who they are? Feel free to offer up some of your own, as well.

Here’s my big problem with the 2009-10 NBA season – why didn’t LeBron’s people get on Sports Illustrated about how they picked an image that made him look kinda wimpy for their cover issue.

I bought both these mags, but haven’t cracked either one – probably won’t. That’s okay – it’s the thought [...]]]>

Here’s my big problem with the 2009-10 NBA season – why didn’t LeBron’s people get on Sports Illustrated about how they picked an image that made him look kinda wimpy for their cover issue.

I bought both these mags, but haven’t cracked either one – probably won’t. That’s okay – it’s the thought that counts, plus it’s Cavs over Lakers in the Finals, provided Shaq can stay healthy and Delonte West isn’t locked up somewhere.

I feel so confident in this prediction that I’ll even admit I accidentally typed “Lakers over Cavs” in the previous sentence before I caught myself.

Also, not to bring up old wounds, but can we finally all agree that Joe Dumars isn’t that great of a GM. @iamboney confirmed that the big-money Detroit free agents are coming off the bench.

Anyone could’ve told Joe – and many people did – that those guys are perfect 4th scoring options on a good team.

Now to the important stuff, and in conclusion – here’s some IM action from lasterday. “Girl” is totally her real name, as well.

Brian: Ilu
Girl: Ok omg. Ilu2. Byeee
Brian: Lol
Girl: Don’t laugh at meee
Brian: : /
Girl: Ughhh
Girl: A-hole
Brian: Thx ttyl
Girl: I threw up lol
Brian: Lol can I put part of this on my blog if I don’t say it’s you lolol

NBA NBA NBA NBA NBA

How ready are you on a scale of 1-10. Also, what are your most profound, personal, and/or private NBA predictions.

As the proprietors have told me, it’s all but abandoned, which means it’s the perfect for getting [...]]]> It’s been a long, hard battle, and many of you old-school readers have won – I have begun my blog tour in support of WSM?, and that means I wrote about the NBA over at The Association.

As the proprietors have told me, it’s all but abandoned, which means it’s the perfect for getting re-established mentally with this post about using Allen Iverson Empathy to pick up girls.

An excerpt:

is because

If you’ve got a blog – sports or not – and want some guest-post action, my plan is to go somewhere different every single day for the rest of the calendar year. Weekends excluded.

I’d be honored if you’d host me for a day and maybe let me plug my movie at the end of the post, and through the rest of the post, and via any Photoshop work I may include in the post.

Just let me know – right now, the schedule is booked about two weeks out, so it’s really exciting and tumultuous, because of all the basketball writing I have get to do. If you have a blog that’s not about basketball, please yell it at me.

Oh, and the first teaser for Who Shot Mamba? went up this morning right here at the Facebook Page. Check it out and let me know what you think. (Everyone can see it – Facebook member or not.)

I’m pretty excited, because I think this is the first time in the history of this movie something happened when I said it would.

LOL!!

What.

Do you think corn is a food for boys or a food for girls. Also, what other foods belong to one sex or the other.

(Also, big big precious to @dustinpearlman and @DJCoe for the work they did on this teaser. Dustin (who directed WSM?) edited it, and Dan (who scored the film) did the music.

Thanks also to @BrettEP for letting me infect The Association with my words.)